No Internet Week

No, I didn’t go cold turkey (though I sometimes have no-Internet days, and I like them).

Back in 2013,

creative agency Mother London deprived five internet addicts of their drug of choice, and filmed the consequences.

Under the watchful eye of psychoanalyst Sarah Hirigoyen and neurologist Alistair Jennings, our five addicts had their internet lives stripped away for a week. Their smart phones were replaced with old text-only mobiles; their social passwords were taken away and changed.

(of disconnecting from social media) “I felt like I’ve been unchained from a whole load of noise.”

I didn’t grow up a digital native (but immigration was a smooth process) which is what makes this 13-minute documentary fascinating to me. I couldn’t imagine this level of connectedness in my own life.